He uses the same technique in this one of telling the story in first and third. Really works too. But how can you argue with an opening like this?
"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. That was our fate. None of us knew it was coming."
The book grabbed me from the opening lines and isn't letting me go.
Ha ha! Well ... he knows the tricks of the craft for this genre. Hook and hold, the reader I mean. The reason I remember Meltzer's technique (1st-3rd) is that at that time I was troubled with my WIP, initially written in 1st but another character became vocal, wanted a voice of his own, wanted to tell his side of the story, and I scratched my head: 1st? 3rd? 1st? 3rd? Anyway, not to digress from the topic of this thread, reading Meltzer gave me an idea on how to handle the troublesome dilemma. Currently, the story is from 3rd all through to avoid the bumpy road of switching from 1st to 3rd and back (Meltzer can do whatever he likes, but I'm not him, right?)